Pressure grows on Pru's Hurn

CITY pressure is growing on Sir Roger Hurn to stand down as Prudential chairman at next month's annual general meeting over his role at Marconi, where he presided over a spiralling crisis until last September. Marconi's former chief executive Lord Simpson is standing down as a director of banking group HBOS, while the ex-finance director John Mayo recently left the board of Schlumberger after just one year.